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Pain: Documentaries and discussion
What is the relationship between watching images on screen in a public cinema and understanding pain - the most personal, internal and hardest sensations to convey? The answer will become clear over this three-part documentary and discussion series on pain screened at the ICA cinema during March, April and May 2004.
The series is divided into three strands - 'Reclaiming the body from pain', 'Pain, loss and trauma', and 'Conveying and representing pain' - each of which offers a different way of considering and dealing with pain. The filmmakers and subjects of the films offer startling and constructive ways of reacting
to pain, whether it's their own or another's pain, or a physical or mental reaction. The screening of each documentary film will be followed by a panel discussion among representatives from diverse fields. Voices from medicine, art, filmmaking, psychology, culture, philosophy and, of course, the audience will all be heard.
For more information visit the Documentary Filmmakers Group at www.dfglondon.com/pain
The series was organized in collaboration with the Documentary Filmmakers Group and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London
Booking details
Tickets for each film screening cost £7.50
£6.50 concessions
£5.50 ICA and DFG members
ICA ticket box office: 020 7930 3647 (open 12.00 - 21.30)
Textphone: 020 7839 0737
E-mail: tickets@ica.org.uk (allow 24 hours for processing)
Post: Send a cheque made payable to 'ICA Ltd' or your credit card details with a SAE to: Ticket Office, ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. Please add 50p for processing.
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RECLAIMING THE BODY FROM PAIN
Thursday 11 March 2004
19.45
'Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'
86 mins, 1997, USA, Director: Kirby Dick
Flanagan, born with cystic fibrosis, carved his niche by fighting back against medical constraints, against sexual and social convention, and against pain. Kirby Dick's respectful, explicit film about the last years of this artist and pioneer is followed by a panel discussion on 'Reclaiming the body from
pain'.
SPEAKERS
Professor Tony Dickenson
Professor of Neuropharmacology, University College London
Dr Simon Glendinning
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Reading
Steve Dwoskin
Artist and Filmmaker
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PAIN, LOSS
AND TRAUMA
Tuesday 6 April 2004
20.10
'Long Gone'
90 mins, 2003, USA, Director: David Eberhardt, Jack
Cahill.
Original music by Tom Waits
The directors spent seven years riding the rails through epic
American landscapes to make this up-close picture of a community
united by their sense of exclusion from the mainstream. Vietnam
vets, middle-class students and long-term alcoholics are brought
together by locomotive wanderlust, by physical hardship and
by their ways of dealing with mental and emotional pain.
SPEAKERS
Dr Caroline Bainbridge
Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial Studies, University of East London
Andrew Cross
Beck's Futures-nominated artist and photographer, author of
'Some Trains in America' (2002)
Dr James Thompson
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University College London
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Still image from 'Long gone' |
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CONVEYING AND REPRESENTING PAIN
Wednesday 5 May 2004
20.10
'Dying to Tell the Story'
95 mins, 1998, USA, Director: Kyra Thompson
The documentary follows Amy Eldon as she investigates the
death and the life of her brother Dan, who was a young photojournalist
when he was killed in Somalia.
Retracing Dan’s steps through war zones and through
the landscape of their youth, and interviewing figures including
Christiane Amanpour and Don McCullin, Amy investigates what
drives people to make images of pain and suffering, and what
the damage is that can be inflicted.
SPEAKERS
Professor Dinesh Bhugra
Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Luke Holland
Filmmaker whose work includes ‘More Than a Life’
(2002)
Dianne Nelmes
Director of Daytime and Regional, Granada TV, and former journalist
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Still image from 'Dying to Tell the Story'
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